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Re:Apple announces Self Service Repair by threeseed on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @02:48PM (#29258004)
> and it was quite intentionally designed for users to upgrade and repair

Only for the battery.

Failure rates on the memory and hard drive components were far higher than we have today. And it didn't benefit Apple at that time to be soldering them to the logic board since thinness wasn't a concern i.e. due to the DVD drive dictating size.

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Re:Apple announces Self Service Repair by snowwrestler on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @03:01PM (#29258159)
I replaced both memory and HD in that machine myself easily. The HD was under the same hatch as the battery.
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